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Man charged in deadly shooting near southeast Columbus apartment complex gets life in prison

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” One of four suspects arrested in the shooting of an unarmed man in southeast Columbus received a life sentence in court Monday afternoon. According to the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office, Caleb Johnson was found guilty in the murder of 25-year-old Jahaan Harris, who was gunned down on June 14, 2024 in [...]

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Last defendant in violent south Columbus sex and drug trafficking ring sentenced

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” The last of six defendants in connection with a human sex trafficking ring, dismantled by aΒ central Ohio task force, has been sentenced after court procedures spanning several years. Alexias Carr-Johnson, one of six total defendants tried related to a south Columbus human trafficking ring, was sentenced to serve two-years of community [...]

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Teenager arrested in fatal shooting near Nationwide Children's Hospital pleads guilty

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” A teenager arrested in a homicide near Nationwide Children’s Hospital nearly two years ago was tried as an adult and pleaded guilty to a one of five charges. According to court records, 19-year-old Marvin Holt was sentenced to at least 10 years in prison and up to 13Β½ years for the [...]

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Pickaway County man faces federal drug, gun charges after sale to undercover agent

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” A three-time convicted felon is facing multiple federal charges related to trafficking in large amounts of drugs, including fentanyl. According to prosecutors, a federal grand jury has indicted 35-year-old Samuel Griffith on six total charges – five counts of selling, distributing, or dispensing a controlled substance, and one count of unlawful [...]

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Four years marked with no arrests since two children and man were fatally shot in car

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” Four years after a man and two young children were gunned down while sitting in a car in southeast Columbus, their killer or killers remain unknown. According to Central Ohio Crime Stoppers, the investigation is ongoing into the death of Charles Wade and two small children, Demetrius Wall-Neal and Londynn Wall-Neal, [...]

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Former Pike County police officer sentenced for operating cocaine and steroid ring

WAVERLY, Ohio (WCMH) β€” A former police officer in Pike County will spend the next decade in federal prison for his role in running a steroid and cocaine ring out of southern Ohio. According to prosecutors, a U.S. District Court judge sentenced Mark Anglemyer Jr. to 10 years for leading a drug trafficking ring that [...]

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Mother of fatally beaten 6-year-old Columbus girl sentenced after plea agreement

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” The mother of a 6-year-old girl who was fatally beaten was sentenced Friday to prison. According to the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office, Ashley Fagan will serve at least 18 years in prison, and as many as 23Β½, in the death of Eva Bretz, who died April 13 after suffering traumatic injuries. [...]

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Columbus man arrested on rape charge after multiple allegations

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” A Columbus man facing allegations of the sexual assault of a minor has been arrested after multiple complaints within nine months. According to court records, 27-year-old Emanuel Latroy Mosley is charged with the rape of a teenager after the victim told police she was assaulted on Dec. 4. in the East [...]

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Arrests made in 2021 fatal shooting outside Columbus bowling alley

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” Two arrests have been made in connection with the 2021 fatal shooting of a man outside of a northeast Columbus bowling alley. According to court records, Columbus police arrested Andre Stromer after a years-long investigation into the murder of Keishawn Riley, who was found lying in the parking lot at the [...]

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Missing since March, Delaware man found dead in Hoover Reservoir

DELAWARE, Ohio (WCMH) β€” A Delaware man missing since March has reportedly been found dead in a car submerged in a large body of water. According to Chaos Divers, 21-year-old Trenton Rollins was found dead after a vehicle was pulled out of Hoover Reservoir, located northeast of Westerville and south of Galena. In efforts to [...]

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Woman finds dead frog in salad kit after shopping at Powell Kroger

POWELL, Ohio (WCMH) β€” A woman shopping at a Delaware County grocery store found something in her bag that made her immediately stop in her tracks. A woman told NBC4 that after she left a Kroger grocery store in Powell, she discovered a dead frog in her unopened salad kit. The woman purchased a Kroger [...]

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Pedestrian struck and killed by garbage truck in south Columbus

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” A man is dead after being struck by a garbage truck in south Columbus early Tuesday morning. According to Columbus police, for unknown reasons, a man was standing in the roadway on Corr Road, in between Parsons Avenue and Lockbourne Road near the Far South train yard. Police said that at [...]

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Central Ohio gas prices hit by price-cycling, but average remains well below $3 per gallon

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” The common practice of gasoline price cycling made its rounds throughout the state of Ohio, but the rise in cost was not as abrupt as in recent weeks. According to GasBuddy’s survey of 500 stations in and around Columbus, Ohio, gas prices climbed 13.8 cents from last week, to average out [...]

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Columbus man accused of sexually assaulting blind person

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” A man from the Northeast Side has been arrested and accused of attempting to rape a blind person. According to court documents, Mifflin Township police were called to a home on Parkwood Avenue in the Arlington Park neighborhood after receiving a report of a sexual assault. The person reporting the assault [...]

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Dublin man convicted of enticing a minor was wearing an ankle monitor

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” A convicted sex offender from Dublin has been sentenced to a lengthy stay in federal prison after arranging to meet up with who he thought was a minor in Cincinnati. According to federal prosecutors, Kyle Tennyson, 35, used the social media app Kasual to talk with and arrange to meet who [...]

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Central Ohio man pleads guilty to using AI to make pornographic images of children

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” An ex-soldier from Columbus charged with multiple federal counts related to child pornography has changed his plea. According to prosecutors, Austin Pittman has admitted to distributing images of real child pornography and using AI to β€œmorph videos and photos of real children” into images of child pornography. The investigation into Pittman, [...]

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North Carolina woman arrested in southern Ohio with $550,000 in suspected cocaine

JACKSON, Ohio (WCMH) β€” A woman from North Carolina was arrested in Jackson County allegedly in possession of nearly $550,000 worth of suspected cocaine. On Wednesday about 6:15 p.m., Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers initiated a traffic stop of a vehicle traveling well above the speed limit on U.S. 35 at the East Broadway Street [...]

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Ace Hardware in Dublin closed after 2-alarm fire ravages building

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) β€” A Dublin hardware store is picking up the pieces after a two-alarm fire raged through the building Tuesday evening. According to the Washington Township Fire Department, crews were called to the E&H Ace Hardware at the intersection of West Bridge Street and Frantz Road, where flames could be seen coming from [...]

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One dead after fire in Marion high-rise apartment building

MARION, Ohio (WCMH) β€” One man is dead after an apartment within a 10-story residential high-rise building caught fire in Marion early Wednesday morning. According to the Marion Fire Department, crews arrived at the Marion Rotary Towers on Delaware Avenue just south of the city’s center, where numerous smoke alarms had been activated. One unit [...]

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Columbus man dead after multi-vehicle crash on icy Virginia highway

FANCY GAP, Virginia (WCMH) β€” A Columbus man has been pronounced dead after a multi-vehicle crash occurred on a Virginia interstate over the weekend. According to the Virginia State Police, a Columbus man has been identified as the driver killed in a crash involving a pickup truck, a tractor trailer, and a Tesla. The crash [...]

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